Ayeen Akbery: Volume 2: Or, the Institutes of the Emperor Akber

ISBN-13: 9781108067102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 590 str.

Ab Al-Fazl Ibn Mub Rak;Abu'l-Fazl Ibn Mubarak;Abu Al-Fazl Ibn Mubarak

Opis

Akbar the Great (1542 1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced by Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551 1602). Between 1783 and 1786, the scholar Francis Gladwin (1744/5 1812) produced an English translation from the original Persian. Reissued here is the two-volume edition that appeared in 1800. As the work's dedicatee and Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings had seen the translation as illuminating the Mughal Empire's 'original constitution' and believed it would educate and inform Britain's colonial administrators. Gladwin's text would not be superseded for many decades, and it testifies to the quality of his scholarship and the contemporary concerns of the East India Company. Volume 2 explores religion, science and philosophy, including details of proper dress, forbidden foods, festivals, and India's flora and fauna."